HMAT Warilda
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HMAT Warilda (His Majesty's Australian Transport) was a 7713-ton vessel, built by William Beardmore and Company in Glasgow as the SS Warilda for the Adelaide Steamship Company.[1] She was designed for the East-West Australian coastal service, but following the start of the First World War, she was converted into a troopship and later, in 1916, she was converted into a hospital ship.
Her identical sister ships, also built by William Beardmore and Company, were SS Wandilla (1912) and SS Willochra (1913).Template:Fact
Time as a troopship
- 5 October 1915: 10th Reinforcements, 9th Battalion embarked from Brisbane heading to Egypt.:[2] 15 Batt embarked Brisbane HMAT A69 Warilda same date[3]
- 8 October 1915: 10th Reinforcements, 1st Infantry Battalion embarked from Sydney heading to Egypt.[4]
- 8 October 1915: 10th Reinforcements, 1st Brigade of the AIF, embarked from Liverpool, NSW, Australia. The ship arrived at Fremantle, Western Australia on 15 October 1915, and reached Suez on 5 November, when the troops were disembarked.[5]
- 25 May 1916: Tunneling Companies, 2 Reinforcements embarked Melbourne.[6]
- 1 June 1916: Tunneling Company 6, 3rd Tunneling Company embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia 1 June 1916. Disembarked Plymouth, England, 18 July 1916.[7]
Sinking
On 3 August 1918, HMAT Warilda was transporting wounded soldiers from Le Havre, France to Southampton when she was torpedoed by the German submarine UC-49.[8] This was despite being marked clearly with the Red Cross; as with a number of other hospital ships torpedoed during the war, Germany claimed the ships were also carrying arms.[9]
The ship sank in about two hours, and of the 801 persons on board, 123 died due to the sinking.[10] The Deputy Chief Controller of the Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corp, Mrs Violet Long, lost her life in this action.[11] Among the survivors was her commander, Captain Sim, who was later awarded the OBE by King George V.[12] Her wreck lies in the English Channel.[13]
Gallery
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References
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- ↑ Memorial to the Warilda Template:Webarchive
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- ↑ Hawke, John Robertson, 1890-1965, John Robertson Hawke collection guide (1915-1919). University of Wollongong Archives, accessed 25/02/2023, https://archivesonline.uow.edu.au/nodes/view/8691
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- Hospital ships in World War I
- Ships built on the River Clyde
- Hospital ships of the United Kingdom
- Iron and steel steamships of Australia
- Adelaide Steamship Company
- Attacks on hospitals during World War I
- World War I crimes by Imperial Germany